I saw an incredible film today. "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke. I know this isn't a movie blog...though, exactly what it has become, post-election, I'm not quite sure. That said, I can't recommend you see this film enough. I'm watching the Golden Globes, and the song from the film won...when they played the excerpt, I started crying - that's how deeply I felt this film.
Have you seen anything recently that has struck a chord, that has seemed so true that it stayed with you for days, or weeks?
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We don't need JFK, we need FDR!!!
"Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.
Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
From Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech accepting his party's nomination for President - Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, June 27, 1936.
Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
From Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech accepting his party's nomination for President - Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, June 27, 1936.
About Me
- J.M. Ferretti
- A bleeding heart liberal, who knows deep down inside that Right and Left are closer than we think. I believe that Progressives are under-represented in the Democratic Party and that it's not too late for true Republicans to reclaim the GOP. Power to We The People!!!
Some of my favorite things
- www.thomhartmann.com
- "Meet John Doe" starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck
- "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" starring Jimmy Stewart & Jean Arthur
- "Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater"
- "Screwed: the undeclared war against the middle class - and what we can do about it" by Thom Hartmann
32 comments:
I am so psyched that Mickey won the GG. And so happy that "Leo" didn't... and how cool was the dude who said the "English actress" ( Winslett) stole his "crying gig"... really, girl: it's been done ( see Halle Berry, she has the patent)...
A film that always stayed with me was "Payday" with the great Rip Torn. His best role...
Michael - I posted this right before he won. I started crying when he thanked his dogs...
Is "Payday" on netflix? I'll add it to my queue...
FH: yes, they do have it...
I was watching the Golden Globes on the couch AKA Zeke's daybed.. about the time Rourke was thanking his dogs, Zeke was trying to push me out. Really, he gets pissed if I get on his couch....
Anyway: Rourke has been through hell and looks it, doesn't he? Check out some literature on Primo Carnera, or Bogart's last film, "The Harder They Fall"...
I saw The Dark Knight with a child who had some fairly extensive facial plastic surgery work done years ago. I was appalled by what I saw as apolitical despair and sensationalism in the movie. A very impressive Ledger peformance, but otherwise an ugly, cynical waste. And, of course, I sat there in the dark, bombarded by the theater's sound system, wondering how the kid would react to the Joker's advertising of his facial disfigurement.
So, yes, I was moved. Traumatized, really. Not the kid, however.
I'm looking forward to seeing both The Wrestler and Slumdog Millionair. I suppose if the kid's mother approved The Dark Knight I can probably take him to one of those good movies too.
we just saw Milk last night. wow, what a great movie. Sean Penn totally deserves an oscar for that. It was so great to see it in SF, in a theatre just off Polk St, with a bunch of older gay men who were really moved and who truly remember the events. I remember some stuff, although I was very young when HM was murdered. I think that press conference in which DiFi announces that Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk were killed by Dan White will stay with me forever. And then when the man shouts "Jesus Christ" in surprise...that's the first time I cried during that movie.
Mr. Suza was sitting next to an older gay man who toddled in on his cane and he started crying at the beginning too.
And then all the references to the guys who are still around - Dennis Peron, Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg...
AND all parallels between Prop 6 back then and Prop 8 now. Of course Prop 6 would have been a huge and ugly blow, but it is interesting that so many of the opponents used the exact same arguments. It'll ruin the children. It goes against the word of God. It goes against my religious values. blah blah blah. What they are really saying is "I'm too insecure with my life to let other people live theirs as they choose even though it doesn't harm me in any way."
Awesome movie. Loved it.
I also want to see "the Wrestler."
I haven't seen The Wrestler yet, nor have I heard anything about Evan Rachel Wood's performance. I first noticed her in a small film that I highly recommend called, King of California. Michael Douglas, another actor who's had too much surgery, plays her disfuntional father. Her boyfriend is Marylyn Manson, so she's got eccentric taste in men.
Rourke, as I understand it, pretty much got his face mashed to hell when he went back to the ring for a few years. His surgeries were not at all the same as enhancement or an attempt to mask the aging process. And at any rate, there is far too much scorn heaped upon people who are trying to extend their careers in an industry that values the external "you". Jesus, the young women last night all had the same bodies, the same dresses, the same the same the same... It's enough to make you cry... oh, that's been done...
Mickey's a good guy as is his his old pal Giuseppe Franco. I couldn't be happier for him.
First of all, I don't hate men. Love 'em fact. Well, certain kinds. Some of them are just irresistibly attractive. I can't quite put my finger on it always, but some men got it, and some men don't. The rest I don't pay any attention to. Like you for instance.
And Nicholson? Uh-huh. He's hot-- no matter what.
I suppose you'd turn down all of those same, same, same, young women in the same dresses?
Oh, I forgot...you're all about sports, and you're also 'virtually' married.
Ah, you're just playing your part, dearie (rather well)... Like most of us, my choices are limited by who wants me, not vice versa. I'm afraid you are much too old for Jack, as I for the skinny girls with cardboard bustiers.. .
Nah, I'm not "all about sports", though. I'm all about my dog, the stream that's eating away my posts, those Portugese doughnuts, my daughter, the quince that will bloom next month, the new waitress at the cafe...
I love this 'part'. Born for it. Gay people call my kind 'breeders'. We prefer to think we're being fruitful. I think it just comes naturally to some women. And, some of us think we shouldn't have to pretend we're not this way. I've got lots of cousins that are just like me...which probably explains why I come from such a huge family. That's another reason why I'm not a Democrat--I could never be a feminist.
coide? You're rigging this damn thing again, aren't you, ferret?
p.s. If you want to see your quince bloom earlier, you can cut them and bring them inside and they'll bloom. They won't be growing outside, but you can enjoy some of them now.
Gay people call my kind 'breeders'. We prefer to think we're being fruitful.
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There's another joke in there somewhere
I don't force blooms, Gina. I like to see them just the way they are. I've never liked houseplants either, or cut flowers. The forsythia bloom even before the quince, in a week or two I'll see the first of them.
"And, some of us think we shouldn't have to pretend we're not this way." And never do that, as with the quince, stay just the way you are.
Thank you--what a nice thing to say. Now I know why ferret loves you so much.
I used to have a prof, twinnie, who said that he loved "my wife, my dog and my house in PB, not necessarily in that order."
Did you teach life sciences in San Diego in the late late 80's by any chance?
:)
I am also constantly surprised by Mickey Rourke's look. He has not aged gracefully, nor has he even tried (cf his fighting career). And yet despite his idiosyncracies and scary mien (or perhaps because of it), he remains an excellent actor. I still remember him in Barfly "Here's to all my friends!"
and so...here's to all my friends!
Barfly is nothing but good lines. My fave:
"I don't hate people. I just feel better when they're not around..."
It certainly was the highlight of Frank Stallone's career
Now if this was the main character, which Hollywood star would you pick to play him?
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Certainly not Rourke, although he does a great job. I wouldn't pick Matt Dillon or Ben Gazzara either... ;-)
Frank Stallone?
Okay. How about Rip Torn?
Rondo Hatton
Rondo Hatton!
The looks? Absolutely. But the acting chops? Not so much.
Although he was somewhat poetic in HOUSE OF HORRORS.
But geez, someone besides me is a Rondo Hatton fan?
Scary
Rondo Hatton!
WV: slyph (the opposite of sylph? how apropos)
Torn would have been a great choice... Max Von Sydow... Langella can play anybody.
Michael - Hi Honey! What's for dinner?
Lovin' the avatar DSG!
I've been inspired.
http://ineedashotofredemption.blogspot.com/
I'm curious, ferret. I didn't watch the Golden Globes--what part of the song did they play that moved you to tears? And why, may I ask (I'm gonna presume you're not a wrestler.)?
The Wrestler is for girls and girly men. Now this is what I call a rassling movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNCTwis2k54&feature=related
I, for one, don't care about what you think, Yankee Thing.
Get it? Yankee-- Thing--?
Is that the proper way to punctuate?
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